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most citedOn a Catalogue of Metrics for Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services

117 citations · 374 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.SE2017★ 11 cited

Object-Oriented Sokoban Solver: A Serious Game Project for OOAD and AI Education

Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Shayne Flint +1

Serious games are beneficial for education in various computer science areas. Numerous works have reported the experiences of using games (not only playing but also development) in…

cs.DC2017★ 9 cited

DoKnowMe: Towards a Domain Knowledge-driven Methodology for Performance Evaluation

Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Maria Kihl

Software engineering considers performance evaluation to be one of the key portions of software quality assurance. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of standard methodologies…

cs.DC2017★ 11 cited

Boosting Metrics for Cloud Services Evaluation -- The Last Mile of Using Benchmark Suites

Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rainbow Cai +1

Benchmark suites are significant for evaluating various aspects of Cloud services from a holistic view. However, there is still a gap between using benchmark suites and achieving h…

cs.DC2017★ 72 cited

On Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services: A Systematic Review

Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +2

Background: Cloud Computing is increasingly booming in industry with many competing providers and services. Accordingly, evaluation of commercial Cloud services is necessary. Howev…

cs.DC2017★ 36 cited

Spot Pricing in the Cloud Ecosystem: A Comparative Investigation

Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +4

Background: Spot pricing is considered as a significant supplement for building a full-fledged market economy for the Cloud ecosystem. However, it seems that both providers and con…

cs.SE2015

The more Product Complexity, the more Actual Effort? An Empirical Investigation into Software Developments

Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Ye Yang

[Background:] Software effort prediction methods and models typically assume positive correlation between software product complexity and development effort. However, conflicting o…